The Once Upon a Time Challenge

Stainless Steel Droppings is hosting a fantasy challenge, and I've decided to participate. I'm a fan of fairy tales from way back, and there's a lot of appeal for me in this challenge.

I'd really like to do all the quests. We'll see. If I do Quest the Third, my choices for books will most likely be

Fairy Tale:

• Ralph Manheim's translation of the Grimm tales

Folklore:

• Undine;
• Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South, B.A. Botkin (ed.)

Fantasy:

• The Island of the Day Before, by Umberto Eco

Mythology:

• The Book of Invasions (Celtic Mythology)

and, since I have read Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, I will watch a filmed version.

For the Short Story Quest I'll find stories online:

The Bolt Tightener
Town's End
The Life and Deaths of Rachel Long
The Mouse Whisperer

The Quest On Screen is gonna be easy, because I do those anyway:

Alice, or the Last Escapade
Angel's Egg
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Krabat: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Jabberwocky
Zvenigora
Fire and Ice
Black Orpheus
Beauty and the Beast (1946)

What fun!